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Re: Prepending text to the beginning of a file


From: Davide Brini
Subject: Re: Prepending text to the beginning of a file
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:46:48 +0200

On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:35:25 +0500, Akbarkhon Variskhanov
<akbarkhon.variskhanov@gmail.com> wrote:

> In my understanding, it should let me, well, read from and write to the
> file for in-place editing.
>
> Let's say that I open a file for both reading and writing:
> exec 3<> file
> Next, I'd like to write to it:
> echo "some rather long text" >&3

This _overwrites_ whatever is at the beginning of the file, it does not
insert.

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D.



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